Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

The petals are the dots around a die with a dot in the middle(3 or 5). Add all the petals, 2 petals on the 3 and 4 petals on the 5.

So wrong. Weeks of puzzeling. Perhaps a tired brain does help.

irate

This is a nice simple puzzle to spend some time with

This problem had me stumped for well over an hour on my first attempt (before I bowed out in shame). A second try, though, fresh off of a finished semester, brought the answer in about 15 minutes.

I suppose the lesson is to attempt the game only after your brain has been properly fried; a fully functioning brain will only hold you back. ;)

My wife has been talking about this game she use to play in a "Gifted and Talented" class in 6th grade. It still bugs her today that she never could figure it out, but everyone else could (she's thirty now!) After hearing about this for a dozen years I decided today to get online and search petals around the rose and found your site. 2 guesses later I had it (yes, I swear I got it in 2- probably because I have been running solutions in my subconscious for twelve years.) Now the problem is that I gave her the web address so she could overcome her self-doubt and she is more frustrated than ever. After reading other post on this page I'm going to go into our room and tell her that the smarter you are, the longer it takes. She doesn't know how many tries it took me because if she knew I would probably be sleeping on the couch. I can't tell her the solution because I know I would be on the conch if I give away the secret. Please pray that it comes to her soon!!! Also, I don't think I'm a genius because four Christmas seasons ago I got a wooded puzzlethat traps a wine bottle in. I lost the instructions for how to put it together, let alone take it apart. Maybe in another eight years she'll get online and find the solution. God Bless

Ack! I thought petals meant something completely else, a certain flower, instead of the "leaves". So I wondered what the catch could be, since it'd be impossible even for a rainman-type-of-guy to call out the solution more or less instantly, time and time again, if there were advanced algorithms involved...

Now I only wonder if there's a good way of translating the name ofthe game into swedish without giving away the solution ;)

it took me about 30 minutes to solve the problem lol may be i'm lucky that not so smart since Dr. Duke said "the smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out."

Oh damn, I had to read all Bill's story. Only after reading about his misunderstanding of the game's name, I backtracked from all my thoughts, concentrated on the words, rechecked with the rolls, and knew the trick.

Like Bill Gates, who lives across the lake (Lake Washington) from me, I first encountered this while undergrad age. I, however, come from a word background, not a numbers one. When focusing on the name rather than the apparent mathematical rules it is quite obvious. It just goes to show that English majors aren't all washed up, no matter what Garrison Keillor might say.